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3 Δεκ 2018 · With the buffalo gone and poverty, hunger and disease increasing, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes came under intense pressure in the 1890s to sell their land. In 1896, they sold the U.S. government a piece of their reservation ten miles square—including the splendid hot springs at present Thermopolis, Wyo.
24 Ιουλ 2018 · Born and raised in rural Wyoming, Jewell Reed has called America’s sagebrush country her home for her entire life. “This area started being homesteaded around 1916. A lot of them were soldiers coming from World War I, and there was free land,” she said.
21 Δεκ 2020 · The Rise and Fall of a Fracking Boom Town: An Oral History. Rock Springs, Wyoming, sits on vast underground stores of natural gas and shale oil. But what was meant to be a blessing turned...
2 Σεπ 2024 · General Patrick Connor is credited with founding Soda Springs. In a sense, he founded two towns side-by-side. Connor’s troops led about 325 Morrisites —followers of Joseph Morris and a...
3 Ιαν 2024 · The legendary Pitchfork Ranch returns to the market, listed for sale by a real estate company in Thermopolis at a whopping $67 million.
30 Αυγ 2017 · In 1937, men in Soda Springs looking for a significant source of water to supply a community bathing pool drilled into a natural geyser, unleashing the warm water. It shot out of the earth in a column over 100 feet high.
The springs were known to Native Americans, and were a landmark along the Oregon Trail in the middle 19th century. The city is also the location of the Soda Springs Geyser, which was unleashed in 1937 when town fathers were seeking hot water for a hot pool bathing attraction.
